[Maceman]

This is the fallout from their brilliant plan hatched in the late nineteenth century.

There's a very interesting novel written in 1888 by Edward Bellamy regarding the perfect (socialist) Utopian world in the year 2000.

In the 1930s, it was declared by a number of magazines to be the most important novel of the previous 50 years.

Check out the plot summary in the Wikipedia article below.

Looking Backward (Wikipedia)

[ConservativeMind]

Thank you for that.

I had no awareness of the book. The Wikipedia reference did it justice.